Re: Chiapas famine alert & some concrete controversy

[Jack Hill <mlbooks@xxxxxxx>]

Comments on international solidarity with Mexican struggle--

Concretely I advocate that American workers support workers struggles
in Mexico.  In particular the bus drivers in Mexico City, the SUTAUR
deserve support.  We need to support all the mass struggles in Mexico
against the capitalist PRI government, including particularly the
indigenous peasants of Chiapas.  Yes there are problems with the EZLN
and who they are trying to rely on to build a nationwide movement in
Mexico.  But of course we have to defend them against government
repression (which is also ordered by U.S. imperialism).

I have resisted getting involved in the anti-NAFTA activity in the
U.S. because of the chauvinist content of so much of this agitation.
I prefer to point out that the NAFTA represents a general trend of
international politics and economics that was occurring before
NAFTA.  The issue is international working class solidarity not a
nationalist fight over jobs.  Some activists I work with disagree with
me on this and feel an internationalist opposition to NAFTA is
politically possible and necessary.

Another front I consider of primary importance is the fight against
the persecution of immigrants.  One of the big problems in organizing
the American working class has always been the influence of chauvinism
and racism.

Jack Hill <mlbooks@xxxxxxx>


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